emusonacid!

O.K. i just bought another emu, a new one this time and the've sent a sample cd,is there any translators out there that can read and convert 'for free'......tried chicken thingy but not sure if i want to spend that much money to convert one cd!....i could use it to read my akai's but i alredy use osmosis for these, so i just need am emu translator...thats free....anyone?

im a little confused. you want the files on the EMU sample cd to be converted? to what type? or are you trying to load the sounds into your EMU? do you have a scsi cd-rom?

If you want to be able to send them to your emu as full presets (all pre mapped and whatnot) youll need a scsi cd rom. I highly suggest getting one, especially since you can get a scsi cdrom of ebay for $1 or so (plus $8 shipping hah). If you just wanna be able to comb it and send individual samples over one at a time, a program CD Xtractor can do that for you. Hook me up on msn and ill see what i can do for you.

Your best setup is to go with the scsi cdrom, and maybe eventually get a scsi cd-r as well. That way you can burn your own sample cds from presets youve made (back it up!) and read all these other things. Nice thing to have for sure

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i didn't explain myself well.i can browse this cd usin chicken sys demo,and play the samples, but the demo is restricted to that it will not convert and save any samples.My emu has no scsi cd.Anyway looks like i should get one,and another scsi card as im already hooked up to the mac.
cheers for replies,no short cuts on this for me this time......

no, you don't need another scsi card, you can just daisy chain the scsi devices. e.g. your computer to the scsi cd-rom then the cd-rom to the EMU.
so basically you just need another cable if you get the cd rom

so a scsi cd rom must have an in and out yeah?

not strictly speaking, if you buy a bare drive it will have the standard connector, what you need then is a way to get that in the chain, perhaps as simple as getting a scsi (internal) cable with multiple plugs or buying an external scsi box (which will have the standard in/outs)

cheers,can you still send/recieve samples from my mac HD this way?

heres how the connection goes emu to cd rom, cd rom to mac. if your 2nd emu has two scsi connectors then you can insert it after the first emu if not you will have to buy the scsi card option for the emu, which i think is cheaper than a mac scsi card, im not sure but i do know that it will cause problems if you add a 2nd scsi card to the mac. adding another to the emu is the best way to go. make sure that each scsi device has its own scsi id number. this can be selected on back of the scsi cd rom and in the software of your mac and samplers

and yes you will still be able to send /recieve samples from you mac HD

great help on here once again,cheers all.